Discours sur le primitif. Ed. by FIONA MCINTOSH-VARJABEDIAN. Lille: Universite Charles-de-Gaulle--Lille 3. 237 pp. 18.50 [euro]. ISBN 2-84467-040-7.
These collected conference papers are addressed to a wide constituency of specialists in historical, literary or cultural studies, and anthropology. Each asks in differing ways: is there a continuum or a discontinuity between Them and Us (who compose and consume this kind of book)? Ethnocentrism rubs shoulders with egocentricity, and ...